strew

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One day I came back home and my wife complained about all the fat books I strew around for the umpteenth time.

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Quick take

spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all over the carpet"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all over the carpet"

verb

cover; be dispersed over; "Dead bodies strewed the ground"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for strew.

verb

spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all over the carpet"

verb

cover; be dispersed over; "Dead bodies strewed the ground"

Example sentences

One day I came back home and my wife complained about all the fat books I strew around for the umpteenth time.

If you intentionally strew things around in public and leave them there, why shouldn't anyone do with them as they like?

On the other other hand, we're essentially paying urban poor to empty cans and strew garbage over the sidewalk.

"Togusa: "'His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced / Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks'"Batou: "Now you're quoting Milton, but we are not Satan.

Everything is: the shadows in the glass Which, in between the day’s two twilights, you Have scattered by the thousands, or shall strew Henceforward in the mirrors that you pass.

If you write FP and only occasionally strew in some OOP, well, many of the patterns fly out of the window, as you do not really need then any longer, because the building block is a function and you solve most of the stuff using closures and higher order functions.